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Time for another book post! These books are from Tallaght and Ballyroan libraries in Dublin.

From top:

The Raven Boys – Maggie Stiefvater

Lola And The Boy Next Door – Stephanie Perkins

Carry On – Rainbow Rowell

Stop The Excuses! – Wayne W. Dyer

Likeable Business – Dave Kerpen

Pretty Honest – Sali Hughes

Forensics: The Anatomy Of Crime – Val McDermid

Cameron At 10 – Anthony Seldon & Peter Snowden

Solitaire – Alice Oseman

Investigating Sherlock – Nikki Stafford

Star Wars vs. Star Trek – Matt Forbeck

Girl Up – Laura Bates

Looking forward to getting stuck in to these, as some of these have been on my to-read list for a while. These books will help me keep going in between reading lots of industry material for the masters!

OK, I’ve been running around the place like a mad thing for the past few weeks. However I went to Dublin to the library in Blanchardstown yesterday, and this is what I found after a successful book hunt:

In case it doesn’t show up right, the books I found are as follows, from top:

The concert on Monday night was amazing. Robert performed a lot of songs from his new album Lullaby And The Ceaseless Roar and I was only familiar with one of them, “Little Maggie” which he had previously performed on Later With Jools Holland. The album can be described as world music with a rock edge. The first few songs were from the album and they merged together to form a sonic wall of sound. His band is composed of two guitarists, a drummer and a folk musician from the Gambia called Juldeh Camara who plays the riti which is a six-string fiddle. A lot of Led Zeppelin classics were performed as well – “How Many More Times”, “Going To California”, “Nobody’s Fault But Mine”, “Babe I’m Gonna Leave You”, “What Is And What Should Never Be” and of course “Whole Lotta Love” and “Rock & Roll”. The audience in the Olympia theatre were hugely enthusiastic and greeted every song with cheers. We were on our feet for the last three songs of the set which were a trio of Zeppelin classics – “Whole Lotta Love”, “Babe I’m Gonna Leave You” and “Rock & Roll”. With such a diverse band, the Zeppelin material is given a radically different treatment. They are recognisable but given unique slants. According to one review, Robert “blew the roof off the Olympia!”
As it should be – he has been here in Dublin three times and once in Cork. A performer well worth catching live.